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The "I want me some Skelcons" Appreciation Thread

With talks of the Army Builder 2-Pack being revealed at next year's SDCC, I began wondering about the possibilities for several arm builder figures.
Hordak has the Horde Troopers and King Randor has the Royal Guards. But Skeletor's Hoover Bots are a no-go right now and his 200X skeleton warriors would be rather tough (and expensive) to translate into this line.

But there still are the Skelcons!

Being Skeletors henchmen in the Ladybird books, Mattel definitely has the rights to these. I always digged their design, which IMO could translate well into the MotU Classics line.

Eh, but would they sell? I think of myself as a HUGE MOTU fan, it's the best property EVER, yet, I had NO idea who these Skelcons where before finding these boards. It's easy to say, yeah I'd buy those, but I highly doubt those would sell well enough to warrent a release.

I'd rather wait until Mattel has purchased all the Filmation rights and they can start releasing the hovering Robot Knights from the cartoon. I still love my custom collapsable Robot Knight made from a cut-down Horde Trooper.

Eh, but would they sell? I think of myself as a HUGE MOTU fan, it's the best property EVER, yet, I had NO idea who these Skelcons where before finding these boards. It's easy to say, yeah I'd buy those, but I highly doubt those would sell well enough to warrent a release.

To be frank, I don't think that they'd be record sellers, and I wouldn't want them in 2010 already. They are 3rd-stringers, after all.
I do think however that they could work as some sort of Exclusive or bonus figure around 2012.
I didn't start this thread to tell Mattel "hey, do these asap". It's rather supposed to make more fans aware of the Skelcons and maybe create increasing demand for them. After all, hardly anybody cared about the Green Goddess years ago, before Baena posted his famed fanart, and now we have her available as figure.

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Looks cool! I'll take any sort of skeleton warrior thing that they come up with, honestly. Though, I'd hope they would take some creative liberties and make them a bit more interesting than blue guys in furry clothes. The heads are awesome, but there needs to be something else going on with the bodies!

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Good candidate for a bonus figure. Tooling would be minimum one piece (furry vest) the head could use Skeletor's havoc staff with some reworking of he neck peg. The arms & legs could be reused from the "first appearance" He-Man Toyguru mentioned is coming. The feet could be reused from a future release of Keldor...Throw in some repainted weapons and you have a great figure that would cost Mattel almost nothing to produce. Somebody should do a mock up of what it would look like as a figure.

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I just realized that in that pic, Stratos has the badly posisioned wings that we see on the actual MOTUC Stratos figure. If TG had been on the ball, rather than giving us lame excuses for why Stratos' wings are positioned terribly, he could have just responded, "Stratos' wings are based on the Ladybird books".